I joined my older brother when we was watching the zero boys on VHS.
I would have been around seven at the time and some scenes were a little too much.
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The suffocation scene is the one that stands out.
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It's never an entire movie, it's a scene here and there.
Like in The Exorcist, when they showed it on network television back in the late-70s it must have been, the CBS Saturday Night Movie or something like that, "viewer discretion is advised".
Anyway... clicking channels, I stumbled upon a moment during the ritual itself, with the girl in silhouette on her knees, arms towards the ceiling, the demon Pazuzu behind her. That screwed up many a night afterwards.
As a young adult, another scene that fucked with my head for many a night was the grainy dream transmission, with the faint audio covered in static noise, from John Carpenter's "Prince Of Darkness".
Now I'm gonna flip the concept on its' head and tell you what film cured my fears of the dark at the time. Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation Of Christ".
It was The Exorcist on Network television for too many of us Gen X'ers.
Mine would have to be Hollow man (2000) it was on TV at the time and for some reason as a kid watching the shifting both the animal and the human scene where they turn invisible where the skin disappeared then his muscles and veins, was absolutely terrifying, I don't remember well but my parents said I wouldn't let them sleep for weeks.
Tbh I don't think anyone is old enough to watch Mars Attacks. The visual design is too much. The movie itself isn't that bad, but the fucking martians. Fuck me.
ACK ACK!
ACK ACK TO YOU TOO!
yodeling induced head explosion
Deliverance.
Aliens. I was terrified of facehuggers being under my bed for a decade. Not so much anymore.
Hereditary. I’m old and I still insist I am too young to watch it.
The Gate
The Seventh Sign.
To this day I can’t watch biblical horror in particular without nightmares. I’m not even Christian.
Why did my parents think it was a good idea to take me to see The Excorcist
The Blair witch project when I was 8. Watched it by myself.
The Thing messed me up as a 14 year old.
Pet Cemetery, kid getting hit by the semi
Nah, it's Zelda. That creepy bitch haunted me for years.
"raaaaaaaachellllllll..."
Fuck that.
Dude! Zelda was my biggest fear for a good couple years after that movie.
Didn't help that my mom said I looked like him when I was that little lol
Kentucky fried movie
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Blob (80s version), The Thing, and House. The first two still hold up really well but the third one I rewatched as an adult and it was so stupid I was embarrassed I had been so terrified of it as a little kid.
Independence Day: The dissection scene
They: The whole damned movie
Return to Oz.
DoooooorrrRRRRRRRRTHHYYYYY GAAAAAALLLEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
There is a fair bit of mental illness in the family, the early asylum scenes hit a bit too close to home for 5 year old me.
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